Facebook introduced community crisis response over a year ago making it easier for people to ask for and give help during a crisis. Today it has announced that it is also including organizations and businesses to help the community and respond plausibly.
Facebook says that organizations and businesses can post in Community Help, where they can provide critical information and services for people to get the help they need in a crisis. The company is rolling out this functionality to Pages for organizations and businesses like Direct Relief, Lyft, Chase, Feeding America, International Medical Corps, The California Department of Forestry and Fire and Save the Children. It also said that it would make the feature available to more in the coming weeks.
Enabling organizations and businesses will bring in more ways to reach communities impacted by crises in more better ways like free transportation to supplies, connecting volunteers with organizations that need help and more.
Facebook says that it has helped more than 500 different crises. The main goal here is to build tools that will help people stay safe and provide them with ways to get the help they need to recover from the crisis.